January 12, 2015
NAS board member Sandra Stotsky writes about the failures of the Common Core State Standards to prepare students for truly college-level reading and thinking.
January 12, 2015
Robert L. Paquette describes his encounter with AP history at the high school level.
January 7, 2015
Six social psychologists are publishing an article arguing that their discipline suffers as a science due to its narrowness in the range of opinions it deems acceptable.
January 6, 2015
A holiday window display at fashionable NYC store Bergdorf Goodman suggests that classic literature represents an aspect of the good life.
January 6, 2015
The Jesuit university in Milwaukee rebuked a professor for blogging about what another instructor said to a student about discussing homosexuality in class.
January 5, 2015
A highly ranked elite liberal arts college chastises students for dressing up as American Indians at Thanksgiving, while at the same time encouraging rampant immorality as part of campus cul......
January 2, 2015
Sandra Stotsky responds to the claim that the Common Core is impossible to replace.
December 31, 2014
Peter Wood examines how academics have promoted and contributed to lawlessness and violence.
December 22, 2014
Today academic freedom is an embattled principle as campus guardians of political correctness wield the power to hush discussion of subjects they don't like.
December 17, 2014
The special section of the winter 2014 Academic Questions highlights campus attitudes toward guns and religion.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
